Note 1 — Chapter VII · Insurgent Rule in the Visayas and Elsewhere

The claim has frequently been made that the United States government destroyed a republic in the Philippine Islands,1 but some of the critics seem to entertain peculiar ideas as to what a republic is. Blount states2 that Aguinaldo declined to hear our declaration of independence read “because we would not recognize his right to assert the same truths,” and then apparently forgetting the Insurgent chief’s alleged adherence to the principles of this document, he lets the cat out of the bag by saying that “the war satisfied us all that Aguinaldo would have been a small edition of Porfirio Diaz,” and would himself have been “The Republic.”3